Popularity and/or The "Cool" Groups
Yep, chances are you'd know a bunch of kids who are known as the cool ones.
There's a group of "cool" kids in my year level, and really, they're not the nicest of people. Some of them pretend to be nice to people, the rest just leave us alone. They all look down on us others, though.
How many of you have seen the movie Mean Girls?
Cast your minds back to the scene where Regina compliments a girl on her skirt. She then turns to Cady and whispers, "That is the most fugliest skirt I have ever seen."
That's what it's like in my year level. Not as full on as Mean Girls, but just little things like that.
The "cool" girls I know are the pretty girls, the fairly smart girls, the sporty girls. But are they really popular?
The Oxford dictionary definition of popularity is "being generally liked". Many of the "cool" or "popular" girls I know aren't liked by everyone.
So, going by the Oxford definition, popularity isn't being pretty, having a boyfriend and being good at sport.
Being popular isn't being a b-word. That is why I've put the word "cool" in quotation marks. Because bagging people out behind their backs, that's not cool.
Note: I do know that there are popular girls that are really nice. I'm just going by people I know. And yes, this blog is slightly stereotypical. Forgive me.
There's a group of "cool" kids in my year level, and really, they're not the nicest of people. Some of them pretend to be nice to people, the rest just leave us alone. They all look down on us others, though.
How many of you have seen the movie Mean Girls?
Cast your minds back to the scene where Regina compliments a girl on her skirt. She then turns to Cady and whispers, "That is the most fugliest skirt I have ever seen."
That's what it's like in my year level. Not as full on as Mean Girls, but just little things like that.
The "cool" girls I know are the pretty girls, the fairly smart girls, the sporty girls. But are they really popular?
The Oxford dictionary definition of popularity is "being generally liked". Many of the "cool" or "popular" girls I know aren't liked by everyone.
So, going by the Oxford definition, popularity isn't being pretty, having a boyfriend and being good at sport.
Being popular isn't being a b-word. That is why I've put the word "cool" in quotation marks. Because bagging people out behind their backs, that's not cool.
Note: I do know that there are popular girls that are really nice. I'm just going by people I know. And yes, this blog is slightly stereotypical. Forgive me.
To be well liked in this world means that you have to be on top. And to be on top means you have to be mean. To be a pushover, or overly nice isn't going to get you anywhere.
Sadly enough,
in schools being well liked is about being on top.
So of course the well liked people arn't going to be genuinely kind people,
how would they make it out on top if they were.
Nice blog.
Jessie.Tastic!, October 21st, 2007 at 03:32:23am
Eh, I don't really know any people like that.
The people in my class, my school are just all... normal. Sure, there's a group of people who all the boys like, but that's not why they're friends. I'm actually friends with them.
I dunno, where I'm at it's just normal.
Nice blog.
Miley Cyrus, August 29th, 2007 at 01:02:22am
Apparently, Im the most known person in my year level.
Why?
Because I fight back and im not afarid to stand up the the "cool" people and show them that people hate their guts.
Other than the fact im one of the emo crowd so of cours eim known O_O
But people get called "cool" for no reason nowdays.
I call the "nerds" Cool. I mean, Who else ca calculate numbers I cant even THINK about in my head faster than lightening O_O
Their the real cool ones O_O
LMAO
Tholomew Plague, August 27th, 2007 at 12:43:43pm
That's what I always think.
Like, how are they popular if not many people like them?
Some people anyway. =]
Nice blog.
Skippy., August 27th, 2007 at 10:07:16am
Nice blog. Now I know what I can say to somebody when they claim to be "cool" or "popular."
threeam., August 27th, 2007 at 10:06:49am